Elevated By Islam Not Defined By Culture Poem by Abdulrauf Muhammad Aljasawee

I speak plainly because truth does not whisper.
I do not hide meaning behind curtains of fear.
What I wear is honesty, what I carry is conviction,
what I represent is freedom and what I say today is not for affection.
This confidence did not fall from the sky it was taught by grace, it was fought for and it was revealed.

We once lived in the darkest of times lokacin ba musulunci, countless of atrocities committed on a daily basis, where the female child only lived her life cikin ƙasƙanci, She was tormented and deprived of every right, sam ba Adalci, Some even killed and mutilated her body cikin jahilci.

Before Islam came a newborn girl was received with shame, her first breath met with burial plans,
her cradle bed replaced by a grave.
She was wrapped in dust before she learned her name, buried alive for crimes she never committed,
She was killed to protect pride, and murdered to feed ego.
Then Islam arrived cikin bazata kamar guguwar sauyi, It turned to the killer and said
For what crime was she buried alive?

Islam came not as a rumor not as myth, but as a light with law and mercy with meaning.
Through Islam I became powerful.
Through Islam I gained purpose.
Islam did not erase my identity it restored it.
It gave me courage to stand, strength to speak,
and direction to live.
Of course through Islam Allah gave us a reason and the purpose for living har a yau muka samu meaning.

Islam did not silence women it amplified them, It did not shrink them it honored them.
So when I say I am a Muslima
I say it with gratitude, not an apology, I say it with dignity, not ƙasƙanci
Because Islam taught me that truth has a spine and justice has a voice.

Idan gaskiya ta zo a faɗe ta ko zata kisa, ni bani habaici. Ina da salon magana gami da kalamai, cikin turanci. Na kan kau da kai daga zumɗe, ina da kawaici. Ni bani sa kaya idan ba guga, haba ƙauyanci
Idan na fito daga nesa zaka jiyo ƙanshi na, ko baka da hanci. Ku dube ni da kyau zaku ganni da gata, ina fa da ƴanci. Rayuwata cikin ni'ima jin daɗi gami da aminci, ina musulunci.

Yes Islam did not only raise one woman it raised a legacy, Like Asiya ƴar Misra, a queen who lived in a palace but bowed only to truth, who chose faith over comfort, and paradise over a throne.

Like Faɗimatuz Zahra'u
Sayyida garemu ɗiya ga Rasoolu
soft in voice yet firm in stance,
daughter of mercy and mother of patience, the Queen of Aljanna, her life a lesson that dignity does not beg for attention.

Like Rufaidah, the healer of wounds and builder of care, first nurse of the Ummah, she thaught us that mercy is also resistance and compassion is strength, yes Islam truly elevates the women.

Like Nusaybah bint Ka'ab, mace mai kamar maza who stood on the battlefield when others stepped back, shielding the Prophet with her body, rewriting the meaning of courage that bravery has no gender.

Like Zaynab ɗiyar sayyidi Ali, mace tilo kin fi dubu,
The woman who stood before tyranny
with nothing but truth, and turned grief into defiance, teaching the world that silence
is not always patience.

These women were not waiting to be saved,
they were sent to bring values.
They were not standing behind Islam, they were standing within it.
Addini bai kashe mace ba, Haƙiƙa ma shi ya raya ta

Don haka bani ƙarƙare waƙe na da amo
Zan rufe ta ne cikin hikima da salo

Ita gaskiya bata neman izini
Bata neman amincewar zamani

Ba zan yi shiru don gudun zargi ba
Kana ban yo magana don biyayya ga umurni ba

Haƙiƙa addini bai kashe mace ba, shine ma ya ƴanta ta.
✍🏼 Aljasawee: 24 jan 2026